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Arkema Opens China R&D Center

by Jean-François Tremblay
October 28, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 43
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A researcher tries out Arkema’s new facility in Changshu.

Arkema has opened an R&D center in Changshu, China, an industrial city 50 miles northwest of Shanghai. The company’s 10th R&D unit worldwide and its first in China, the facility will focus on battery materials, membranes, coatings, and thermoplastics. It will also include a process development center and training facilities. Arkema already operates plants in Changshu making fluorochemicals, specialty polymers, organic peroxides, and rheology modifiers.

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